Wonderful innovation here by Yuri Suzuki, creator of “Looks Like Music”. Truly a project that you just want to have a play with. Surely the next step for this project is a Kickstarter fund. I want a set of them!

Paper.js is an incredible open source vector powered graphics library, that runs on HTML5 canvas. Looks like a breeze to get up and running with bezier curves, layers and user interactions in a well documented and simply designed scripting environment.

Click this image to visit the BBC News article on this first Chatbot conversation. Makes for some funny viewing as it emerges that, just like us, computers can easily become prone to being spiky and argumentative.

You’re almost waiting for them to turn away from one another in disgust. Brilliant.

Music made by bird-spotters. Sort of. Twitchr demonstrates a lovely, playful community based project, and is well executed using Google Maps. Should be of interest to you Sayuri, as the user can upload info along with their marker placement details…

Truly inspired use of a virtual sense of place to create haunting visions of a communal experience. Hundreds of tourist photos of world famous landmarks (that were all found online), are superimposed here to create these stunning images by Corinne Vionnet.

A great example too of a project that fits right in with the “Virtual Culture & Network Practices” module, for any first years in need of further inspiration. I wonder if permission to use any of the photos was sought?

Simple yet effective drawing wall, with many users drawing on the same page at any given time. Best way to see how people use it is to leave it open for a while. You can even chat to your fellow doodlers (how’s your Russian?). Another brilliant HTML5 experiment from Mr Doob, creator of The Wilderness Downtown by Arcade Fire.

Be sure to visit his Harmony drawing tool too (see video below), which features the amazing drawing tools seen in the Wilderness video. Plus, the project is available as open source, so you can poke around behind the scenes and play around with the different brushes.